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- English Word Perivitelline Definition Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.
- English Word Periwig Definition A headdress of false hair, usually covering the whole head, and representing the natural hair; a wig.
- English Word Periwig Definition To dress with a periwig, or with false hair.
- English Word Periwinkle Definition Any small marine gastropod shell of the genus Littorina. The common European species (Littorina littorea), in Europe extensively used as food, has recently become naturalized abundantly on the American coast. See Littorina.
- English Word Periwinkle Definition A trailing herb of the genus Vinca.
- English Word Perjenet Definition A kind of pear.
- English Word Perjure Definition To cause to violate an oath or a vow; to cause to make oath knowingly to what is untrue; to make guilty of perjury; to forswear; to corrupt; -- often used reflexively; as, he perjured himself.
- English Word Perjure Definition To make a false oath to; to deceive by oaths and protestations.
- English Word Perjure Definition A perjured person.
- English Word Perjured Definition of Perjure
- English Word Perjured Definition Guilty of perjury; having sworn falsely; forsworn.
- English Word Perjurer Definition One who is guilty of perjury; one who perjures or forswears, in any sense.
- English Word Perjuries Definition of Perjury
- English Word Perjuring Definition of Perjure
- English Word Perjurious Definition Alt. of Perjurous
- English Word Perjurous Definition Guilty of perjury; containing perjury.
- English Word Perjury Definition False swearing.
- English Word Perjury Definition At common law, a willfully false statement in a fact material to the issue, made by a witness under oath in a competent judicial proceeding. By statute the penalties of perjury are imposed on the making of willfully false affirmations.
- English Word Perk Definition To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of; as, to perk the ears; to perk up one's head.
- English Word Perk Definition To exalt one's self; to bear one's self loftily.
- English Word Perk Definition Smart; trim; spruce; jaunty; vain.
- English Word Perk Definition To peer; to look inquisitively.
- English Word Perked Definition of Perk
- English Word Perkin Definition A kind of weak perry.
- English Word Perking Definition of Perk
- English Word Perkinism Definition A remedial treatment, by drawing the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.
- English Word Perky Definition Perk; pert; jaunty; trim.
- English Word Perlaceous Definition Pearly; resembling pearl.
- English Word Perlid Definition Any insect of the genus Perla, or family Perlidae. See Stone fly, under Stone.
- English Word Perlite Definition Same as Pearlite.